Security Resilience

CVE-2024-23229

Apple Macos 12.0 – 12.7.5

Published
14 May 2024
Modified
02 April 2026
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 5.5
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0027 19th percentile
Risk Priority 42 floored blend · peak EPSS

CVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.

Summary

CVE-2024-23229 is a medium-severity Insecure Storage of Sensitive Information (CWE-922) vulnerability in Apple Macos. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 19th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and AC-6 (Least Privilege) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

This issue was addressed with improved redaction of sensitive information. This issue is fixed in macOS Monterey 12.7.5, macOS Sonoma 14.4, macOS Ventura 13.6.5. A malicious application may be able to access Find My data.

CWE(s)

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Affected Assets

apple
macos
12.0 — 12.7.5 · 13.0 — 13.6.5 · 14.0 — 14.4

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

Enforces approved authorizations for logical access to stored information, directly stopping unauthorized read/write.

Requires protection of confidentiality/integrity for information at rest, directly addressing insecure storage.

Limits privileges so only authorized accesses to sensitive stored data are permitted.

Associates security attributes with information to support proper access decisions on storage.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

blocks

A.7.14 addresses end-of-life physical destruction, sanitization or label removal on equipment/media already containing data; it does not stop the product from storing sensitive information without limiting unauthorized read/write access in the first place.

Hardening callouts derived

DISA STIG baselines are authored against specific weaknesses. Where this CVE cites a broad weakness class, the mapping is not asserted at that abstraction (owner ruling, 2026-09-25: grade only at Base and below), so no rule is shown here rather than a rule shown against the wrong grain.

  • No fine-grained STIG row for CWE-922, a class-level weakness. Rules are authored against its narrower children: CWE-312.

References